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No. 310,732. Patented Jan. 13, 1885.

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JAMES B. SHARP, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 310,732, dated January13, 1885.

Application filed November 8, 1883. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern Be it known that 1, JAMES B. SHARP, a citizenof the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State ofNew York, have invented new and useful Improvements in SuspenderEnds, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement on the suspender-end describedin Letters Patent No. 192,535, granted to me June 26, 1877, theprincipal object of this present improvement being to save labor andstock and to reduce the cost of the article.

The precise nature of my improvement is pointed out in the followingspecification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-Figure 1 represents a face view. Fig. 2 is a rear view, partly insection. Fig. -3 is a transverse section on a larger scale than theprevious figures,the plan of section being indicated by the line 00 m,Fig. 1.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

The suspe'nder-end described in my Patent No. 192,535 is made of a'fiattape which is bent into a loop, and the parts of which, extending upfrom such loop, are laid flatwise upon each other throughout theirentire length and united by stitching through them, their extreme endsbeing secured together by a metallic fastening device.

My new Suspender-end is made of a flat tape, A, one end of-which is bentinto a loop, B, and secured to the body of the tape by a metallicfastening device, 0. In order to enable this fastening device to take afirm hold, I provide the same with barbs or teeth a, which penetrate thetape, as shown in Fig. 3. It will be seen from this description that bythis present improvement a suspen der-end can be produced which has allthe advantages of the suspender-end made according to my Patent No.192,535, while at the same time about two-thirds of the stock is savedand the labor of stitching the ends of the tape together throughout theentire length is not required.

Furthermore, my new suspender-end is lighter and more convenient towear, particularly in the hot season, than that made according to myabove-named patent.

I am aware of the Suspender-end described in the patent of B. J. Greely,Reissue No. 9,155, dated April 13, 1880, original patent dated November5, 1878, which describes a Suspender-end formed of a round cord which isbent into loops held in position by a metallic fastening device. In thisthe end of the loop is placed against the side of the tape, and afastening device is required with two sockets, one to embrace the bodyof the tape and the other to embrace the end of the loop. The articlebecomes bulky, inconvenient for wear, and expensive to make, and,besides, the end of the loop is liable to work loose, being retainedsolely by the fastening device.

In my suspenderend two flat surfaces are placed in contact with eachother and connected by the metallic fastening device, so that thefriction between the surfaces assists in retaining the parts inposition, and the fastening device requires but a single socket.

I do not claim, broadly, a suspender-end formed of a loop and a metallicdevice for holding the parts together.

'What I claim as new, and desire to secure by 7 Vitnesses W. HAUFF, E.F. KASTENHUBER.

